Ignition
AI Practice Management Free trial
Proposals, engagement letters and automated payment collection.
Ignition vs Karbon
Both Ignition and Karbon sit in AI Practice Management, and firms regularly shortlist them together. They are not interchangeable: Ignition is aimed at firms fixing their billing process, while Karbon is built for growing accounting firms. Ignition does not publish a public price, and Karbon does not publish a public price.
| Feature | Ignition | Karbon |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Firms fixing their billing process | Growing accounting firms |
| Starting price | Custom | Custom |
| Pricing model | Custom | Per-user subscription |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Category | AI Practice Management | AI Practice Management |
| Our rating | 4.4 / 5 | 4.4 / 5 |
| Visit Ignition | Visit Karbon |
The verdict
Choose Ignition if
- You need firms fixing their billing process
- Proposal through to payment in one flow
- Reduces debtor days materially
Choose Karbon if
- You need growing accounting firms
- Email and workflow genuinely unified
- Good visibility of who is waiting on what
What to watch either way
- Ignition: Not a workflow tool
- Karbon: Per-user cost adds up
Testing them
Ignition offers a free trial, and Karbon offers a free trial. Whichever you trial, run it on your messiest real documents rather than a clean demo file — that is where the difference between these two actually shows up.
Karbon
AI Practice Management Free trial
Practice management with AI-assisted email triage and workflow automation.